{"id":119823,"date":"2025-11-05T20:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T20:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/119823\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T20:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T20:08:08","slug":"two-dead-after-crash-closes-state-highway-2-at-karangahake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/119823\/","title":{"rendered":"Two dead after crash closes State Highway 2 at Karangahake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bay of Plenty Times<\/p>\n<p>5 Nov, 2025 05:54 PMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">State Highway 2 is closed between SH26 at Paeroa and Rahu Rd. Photo \/ Google Maps<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Two people have died after a crash on State Highway 2 at Karangahake. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police were called to the crash between Jackson and Rahu Rds about 11.40pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cA car collided with a power pole and tragically both the driver and passenger were killed,\u201d police said this morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         NZ Transport<br \/>\n         Agency said SH2 Karangahake remained closed between SH26 and Rahu Rd.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bay of Plenty Times 5 Nov, 2025 05:54 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,1975,18509,3549,690,6179,305,42,26755,84460,43,384,13672,40,38,41,39,1237],"class_list":{"0":"post-119823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-at","10":"tag-closes","11":"tag-crash","12":"tag-dead","13":"tag-died","14":"tag-have","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-highway","17":"tag-karangahake","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-people","20":"tag-state","21":"tag-top-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topnews","24":"tag-topstories","25":"tag-two"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}